120: Real Estate Investing in Belize, with Will Mitchell
Invest Like a Boss
Sam Marks Johnny FD Derek Spartz
4.8 • 518 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2019
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Will Mitchell is a Canadian real estate investor and the author of The Investor's Guide to Belize Real Estate. His years of real estate experience in both Canada and Belize has allowed him the ability to identify value in growth markets and recognize opportunities others miss .
During this episode, Will share why you may want to invest in the Belizean real estate market. Learn how to how to buy real estate in Belize and what property taxes are like. Find out why Belize is the fastest growing country in the Caribbean from a tourism perspective and how it creates a favorable environment for investors, nomads, and retirees.
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Where we are:
- Sam Marks - Tampa, Florida
- Johnny FD - Kharkiv Ukraine
- Will Mitchell - Toronto, Canada
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Time Stamps:
- 01:36 - Should you travel to Belize?
- 07:10 - Focusing on the islands for tourism and baby boomers
- 08:04 - “100% of my focus from an investment standpoint is on the islands” - Will Mitchell
- 15:21 - The nomad and traveler scene in Belize
- 18:24 - The country's strong legal system and currency
- 20:55 - Island hopping and beach life at its best
- 23:07 - A day in the life of a Belize paradise
- 24:40 - The John McAfee story and island crime rate
- 32:45 - How to invest in the property market
- 38:08 - Beachfront condo starter costs
- 42:36 - “When you live in Belize you become 100x more popular” - Will Mitchell
- 43:22 - The AirBnB, rental market, and potential ROI
- 45:30 - “A standard return on the island would be around 15%” - Will Mitchell
- 48:26 - Tax % and breakdown
- 49:42 - “The lay of the land on property taxes is extremely favorable for investors” - Will Mitchell
- 49:57 - Monthly investor field trip & coworking in Belize
- 52:45 - Riding JET Powered Surfboards
- 55:30 - Communicating with others in different languages
- 01:03:23 - Invest Like a Boss Conference
- 01:07:53 - Should you invest in Belize?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Invest Like a Boss podcast. I'm Sam Marks and I'm Johnny FD. We're self-made entrepreneurs who invest our own money and use modern technology to invest like a boss. |
| 0:08.8 | Join us each week for exclusive interviews with our network of modern investors, business owners, and multimillionaires to discover new ways to invest our hard-earned cash. |
| 0:18.7 | Hey bosses, this is Johnny and welcome to episode 120 of the Invest Like a Boss podcast here in Harki, Ukraine. |
| 0:27.4 | And Sam, are you in Tampa, Tampa? |
| 0:30.3 | Not as interesting as you, buddy, but yep, I'm in Tampa, Florida. |
| 0:33.9 | Okay. Yeah, nice to hear that. |
| 0:35.6 | But wait, how did you get to Har Kareve? I've never even heard of this. I thought |
| 0:38.8 | you were in Kiev. No, no. I took a train from Harkeep to Kiev because I had now, this is my third time now in |
| 0:46.2 | Ukraine. The first time was with you. Last summer I came and I spent some time in Kiev and then Odessa. |
| 0:51.5 | And this year decided, hey, let's check out a different city than I haven't |
| 0:54.2 | been to so let's go to Harkev wow that's really interesting and for all the listeners |
| 0:58.3 | Johnny when he called me this morning he was on video and his video was all blurry in the |
| 1:03.8 | background like wow that looks that looks super suave like where are you you must be in a really |
| 1:08.4 | nice co-working space or something he's like no i'm in i'm in like a |
| 1:12.8 | ussr dungeon condo but Skype's got this new setting where you blur the background it looks really |
| 1:18.2 | fancy yeah like i'm so excited to use this now and i recall but like yeah i'm this fancy swanky office |
| 1:24.1 | with orange shelves in the back but really really just, I think just old. |
| 1:28.5 | Yeah. Well, I'm sure it's a handy utility that'll come and be a useful tool for so many |
| 1:33.8 | listeners out there. I'm going to start using it for sure. Yeah, I love it. So, yeah, |
| 1:38.3 | unfortunately, it is freezing here in Ukraine. It's been, I think it's been like nine degrees, which I think it's like 40 or 50. And it's been very cold. Summer starts late up there, man. You got to wait until July, actually. Yeah, well, what's funny is we had a taste of it. So when I first arrived, it was really cold. It was the same, like 10 degrees. Then for a week, we had super good weather. We had like 24 |
| 2:02.4 | degrees, which is, you know, in its 80s, it was sunny. It was beautiful. And it was like Ukraine is |
| 2:08.4 | great. I'm so glad I came. And then this entire week has been freezing again. Wow. Well, |
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